{"id":781,"date":"2004-03-18T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/crying_wolf\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T19:35:20","slug":"crying_wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/crying_wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/thrive\/2004\/mar\/17\/031706842.html\">Student activism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two student legislators at Western Oregon University have launched a drive to ban Red Cross blood drives on campus, claiming the donor screening process discriminates against gays.<br \/>\nThe two students are particularly upset about a donor question that reads: &#8220;Are you a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even once?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe federal Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the Red Cross screening process, will not accept a donation from someone who answers &#8216;yes&#8217; to the question, in order to help eliminate potentially HIV-tainted blood.<br \/>\n&#8220;By continuing to allow the Red Cross on our campus, the university is telling all the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students that we don&#8217;t care about you,&#8221; said student senator Shauna Bates, who is co-sponsoring the legislation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, these phony claims of discrimination only pollute the atmosphere and hinder those attempting to raise legitimate issues.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2004_03_14_volokh_archive.html#107963570923004638\">Volokh<\/a>, who asks the obvious: What does a question about males having sex with males have to do with lesbians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/crying_wolf\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Crying Wolf\"><p>Student activism: Two student legislators at Western Oregon University have launched a drive to ban Red Cross blood drives on campus, claiming the donor screening process discriminates against gays. The two students are particularly upset about a donor question that reads: &#8220;Are you a male who has had sex with another male since 1977, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}